"Extract.
" Just as one didn't have to be Jewish in the 1970s to care about dissident Jews..."
There is no suggestion that Christians are not being persecuted today - just that they are only part of a bigger picture.
Your (un-linked) quote is a representative from a Church body that has a bit of a reputation as a major persecutor itself - "glass houses maybe?
See below
Jim Carroll

The Global War on Christians JOHN L. ALLEN JR
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution

"JOHN L. ALLEN JR. is the senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and the senior Vatican analyst for CNN, and writes for other national and international publications. He speaks at nearly fifty engagements a year and is the author of seven previous books, including his most recent A People of Hope: The Challenges Facing the Catholic Church and the Faith That Can Save It.